DazV

I know a ton of people getting various screw ups with IE6 at the moment.

Program refusing to start or crashing as soon as it has
Program crashing mid-way through surfing

Anyone agree ?

I'm recommending people switch to Netscape 7.x as it seems a LOT more stable

Iain Young

Nope, works fine for me (and none of the other developers around here are complaining about it too much - no more than usual anyway)...

I wouldn't. It's no longer actively developed and so you're not likely to be getting bug fixes or security patches for it. Plus, it's not exactly stable (I've found it crashes more than i.e. whilst developing stuff for it). Might depend on your machine I suppose....

If you want to try something else, I'd try Mozilla Firefox (Netscape is just an old rebadged Mozilla browser anyway). Note that even this still has security flaws however, so make sure you keep it up to date....

angrynorth

No there's no problems with IE...

http://www.internetnews.com/security...le.php/3374931

none at all...

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;833633

move along people...this programme is completely stable...

http://www.securitytracker.com/archives/target/49.html

nothing to see here people


Iain is right though, steer clear of Netscape, a move to one of the Mozilla incarnations is a much wiser move. Firefox is especially good. Although they still have security flaws, they aren't built into the OS so they can't do the same kind of damage an IE problem could.

Iain Young

Actually, I didn't say there weren't any, I just said there weren't any more than usual

Firefox is great, but does have some serious flaws. They recently closed a hole which would allow access to low level system information via a malicious email, and so although it's not part of the os, it's wrong to say it can't cause the same level of damage.

Those hackers are clever little (insert your choice of expletive here). As firefox becomes more popular, the more the hackers will target it, and so the more of these problems will be exposed....

Having said that, I still prefer Firefox to ie. I just wish all the websites etc I use would support it properly (banking sites for example).

what would scooby do

I've tried to move to mozilla etc but there are just too many sites that don't work. I think it may be javascript but I will stand corrected..

Chris L

Using Firefox 0.9.2 which seems OK - haven't come across too many sites that don't work. I think things will change as use of IE declines. Companies will need to make their site more friendly to other browsers.

Chris